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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29472	A Brief relation of several passages of the life and death of William Barton of Shrewsbury, in October, 1661 wherein may be seen much wickedness against great workings of God in him, as also God's most just anger, and wondrous mercy (as is hoped) towards him / published by a relation of his, and intended chiefly for the good of such as knew him in Shrewsbury, many of whom can testify the truth of these things.		1664 (1664)	Wing B4624; ESTC R37471	26,372	56

and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee life and being awaked he began to be much affected with those words which were so plainly spoken to him and as he rehearsed them to me and several others these were his thoughts upon them Awake thou that sleepest This is sure spoken to me thought he Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead I was sleeping upon the very brink of eternity and have been sleeping in sin for a long time and now Christ awakeneth me this is a call from Christ and I did believe that the rest was said to me and he shall give thee life And these and such like thoughts of Christ made my heart yearn with dear thoughts of Christ and thankful thoughts for Christ and I longed to pray and was earnestly stirred up to prayer and never longed so to pray as I did then so up I got off the Bed I was lying on and there I fell down upon my knees before God and me-thought then I felt my heart grow softer it was hard before I could scarce tell what I should pray for or how But O then I found a freeness a fountain of tears came then it was a call from God I was sure then that it was so and when I would have called to mind whereabout this Scripture should be or where I might find it I could not remember that ever I had read it nor knew whereabout to find it but I was sure it was the Word of God and somewhere in the Bible and that I had heard it sometimes I do believe that it was a call from God for I found my heart softer then O now pray if ever dear friends but two dayes now and no more prayers will be heard for me He was for the most part after this time pretty well composed in his mind and had a pretty good measure of chearfulness not without hope though full of the sence of his guilt grieving much for his sin and that he had dealt so unkindly with God And to most of the company that came in he still continued to order his speech with as much wisdom as he could shewing much affection towards them with an earnest desire of their good And thus he would express himself O that you would not be taken in those snares that I have been taken in And this was some counsel that scarce any could go without That they would be sure alwayes to speak the truth and that which was in their hearts and if at any time you shall have spoken that which you think was not so go quickly and unsay it say I spake that which was not truth and do not stick at shame for I was often hindred thereby do not rest till you have confessed it to God and to some faithful friends and pray them to pray for you that so it might be forgiven you and so you might have more power against another time And do not delay but go quickly whilst your conscience puts you upon it for if you delay it is very likely you will be hindred and never do it though you put it off thinking to do it another time for when that time came wherein I purposed to do it I had less power and less heart At another time his Sister-in-law coming to see him thus he expressed his affection with a smiling countenance and tears My dear Sister my poor Sister my heart yerns upon you I did not love you because I thought you did not love me but I did ill But O now it is otherwise with me for now I love you I would fain have you better for that which hath befallen me Oh! that since God is now distributing his mercy every one might have some and you might have some Some who have come to me are better'd by that which hath befallen me it makes me glad when I think that others will be afraid of sin and bettered by this which is befallen me When his Links were in the knocking of and he was hurt thereby thus he said I will bear the Indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him Thou art just and I have sinned why should the living man complain a man for the punishment of his sin O the Justice of God he will not let sin go unpunished O do not this abominable sin that Gods soul h●tes If thy children transgress thy Laws thou wilt visit their sin with the rod and their iniquity with stripes but his loving-kindness will he not utterly take from them nor alter the thing that hath gone out of his mouth These with many other expressions he often used also at other times His countenance growing more and more chearful and being in such an extasie of joy as though his body could not then have contained his soul these were some of the expressions he then uttered Sister I do verily believe that I am now going to Heaven all those clouds that were upon me are all blown away his own Arm hath brought Salvation He is my Glory my Deliverer in Him will I trust He only is my Rock and my Fortress He is my Defence I shall not utterly be moved I will sing of Mercy and Judgment unto thee O God will I sing O that I had seen what a God I have sinned against O do not sin against God do not that abominable thing which his soul hateth You cannot know his goodness I sought the Lord and he heard me God is in this Town God is amongst his People he hath heard your prayers tell them he hath heard them for me Now I would not live if I might I hope I should not be flattered I would fain have lived that I might have honoured God whom I have dishonoured but he knows what I am and what I should be better than I do Blind that I was to sin against such a God to do that which his soul hateth He was all this while in such a deep rapture of joy and spoke with such force as though his heart would have come out to have spoken His Chains being almost off these were some of his expressions O happy Chains that held me till I had the Favour of God! I would have over-run thine hand but I could not if I would O the Patience of God! O boundless Mercy to such a wretch as I an Iron Heart and Iron Chains gone together O boundless unlimitable Mercy What shall I do for God O that I could honour God! Parting with his Wife he thus exprest himself Poor Wife I have nothing to leave thee but O that thou mayest have the loving Favour of God any thing any thing with the Loving-Favour of God We did not honour God with what He gave us but lived unthankfully and unquietly we sinned against God with his own Mercies Why should they live together unthankfully and unquietly and sin against me with mine own Mercies Part them part them O how just is it that we should be parted Seeing

his Relations he thus began to pity them O poor wretches that must be left to struggle with this sinful world full of snares on every side my heart pitties you O poor wretches I am afraid to think how you should get through the Snares round about you Lord keep you by his Mighty Power through Faith unto Salvation What a stir doth the Devil and the World make to destroy one poor soule your very griefs are folly in respect of God Not long after being alone his Brother and Sister went to him who found him sitting down with his eyes shut his face looking yellow and his countenance as if he had not been the same man They asked him how it was with him and told him that God had put away his sins and would never look at them any more and that it was the Devil that threw his sins in his face but he answered All is gone now I am in the dark I cannot see which is the way but I would hope against hope And again he said Though He kill me yet will I trust in him Some of the standers-by told him that the Devil would do the worst he could against him Because he loved God and hated sin and would fain destroy the kingdom of the Devil but Jesus Christ hath prayed for him that his Faith fail not They mentioned that Scripture also where it is said When the Enemy shall come in like a Flood the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a Standard against him which Scripture much refreshed him Then said he These are comfortable Scriptures indeed Lord keep me from Temptation suffer me not to be tempted above what I am able Keep me by thy mighty Power through Faith unto Salvation And being come to his former Rapture of Joy thus he exprest it Justice and Mercy are met together Righteousness and Peace have kissed each other Christ's Righteousness and Peace to my poor Soul He began again to pitty us who were left behind and said I am glad to dye because I shall be freed from sin and glad to dye because sin shall be shamed I shall have the same nature about me if I live As he was going towards the Execution thus he said Thou dost not willingly afflict nor greive the children of men if lesser strokes would have done it this should not have been Oh how many precious Sacraments have I abused Oh the Patience of God to such a sinful Creature as I O that I could honour God whom I have sinned against I would fain honour thee Lord help me honour thy self O Lord. Chearfully looking upon the multitude he said All these are to see sin shamed When the Officers bad them stand off him he said O do not keep God's People from me this little moment that I am to be in this World they are my delight and my comfort As he went he often exprest great admiration of God's wonderful boundless and unlimited Mercy to him and an earnest desire of honouring God And when some good People that he priz'd as those that feared God came to him as he was going and expressed their affection and thankfulness to God for him he seemed to be much cheared by it and thus he said with a smiling countenance I am gathered I am gathered they have gathered me Sin is going to be executed our Kingdom will be the greatest A Friend going with him cheared him up with the words of Dr. Taylor of Hadley going to his Martyrdom It is but one stept to my Fathers House but his countenance grew very dejected and sad thereupon and thus he said Ah! but I am not such an one Immediately growing more chearful he said But some he saves as fire-brands out of the fire and so me In the midst of Judgement thou remembrest Mercy Will God accept of me to honour his Truth I fain would I hope God will help me I shall honour his Truth How truly is his Word fulfilled on me And being come to the place of Execution after he had kneeled down and prayed very pertinently and well he concluded with these words Now Lord help me to honour Thee Then he directed his Speech to the People to this purpose My dear Friends and Neighbours you are come hither not only to see a poor Sinner hanged here is something that is spiritual to be taken notice of O that you might not let that slip O that you might not let it slip Here is the truth of God's Word to be made appear upon me Heaven and Earth shall fail but not one jot of God's Word shall fail but shall all be fulfilled The truth of God's Word will be made good upon all you that are here present sooner or later And first let me tell you how true it hath been upon me I was born of Parents that served God I had a Father that feared God and a Mother and other Relations that are here present Brothers and Sisters that served God who followed me with their counsel and their tears but because I did not receive their good Counsel nor follow it I began at the length to be weary of it and not to love it I did not love the very house sometimes and cared not how little I came to it because I could not be quiet in it but they would be counselling me for my good Oh! what shall I say I have been a Son of many reproofs but I hardened my neck And how is God's Word made good upon me in this He that being often reproved and hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed My sin hath alwayes been running from Counsel for had I hearkened to faithful Counsel and followed that it had been otherwise with me I think and just it was with God that I should be taken in running away from Counsel For I think if my wife had not bidden me stay within I should not have gone out but because she bad me and I having a readiness to do contrary out I went and some such words as these I used to my wife Dost thou think that I will be afraid to go about my business for fear of an Apprentice-boy I was no sooner out but I knew I had done ill and had a mind to go in but I had no power then I should have stopt sooner O let every one hearken to Counsel I had an aptness to do contrary and so I was left to my self that if I needs would run from Counsel I might see what would come of it and see whither it brought me O let every one take heed of sin stop sin in the beginning for you cannot stop when you will if once you give way to sin When my Mother or some others would deal faithfully with me I did for the most part believe that they spake to me out of true love and could see it to be right counsel and such as I had need of and yet there was that in me that put me upon doing contrary though I thought it was